Plate
ca. 1790-1820 (made)
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Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with blue and purple enamels and gilded. Decorated with a nymph bathing her feet in a medallion in the middle, imitating a classical cameo. The rim is edged on the inner side with a gilt wreath, and on the outer with a blue shell border.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with blue and purple enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Plate of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, 1790-1820 |
| Physical description | Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with blue and purple enamels and gilded. Decorated with a nymph bathing her feet in a medallion in the middle, imitating a classical cameo. The rim is edged on the inner side with a gilt wreath, and on the outer with a blue shell border. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey |
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| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
p. 113, Cat. 104
104. Plate with a cameo
and flowering vines
circa 1790-1820
hard-paste porcelain with a tin-glaze painted in
colours and gold
diam. 23,5 cm
no mark
inv. C.1740-1919
bequest: Mr John George Joicey
The plate, which has a cameo with a figure painted in grey on a violet ground in the centre, is decorated with a ring of gold flowering vines; along the lobed rim there is a saw-tooth border in blue inside of a gold edge. This type of decoration can be assigned to the period when the factory first came under the direction of Carlo Leopoldo Ginori Lisci (1792-1837). The use of a tin-glaze on the plate shows that the clay type can be identified as masso bastardo (see cat. 63, 103). The plate was part of a major donation made by John George Joicey to the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. C.1240-
C.1776).
A. d’A.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.1740-1919 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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